Paul Anthony Appleby, 27, had initially pleaded not guilty to assaulting John Edward Lloyd Ellis, an official of the Denbigh and Flint Hunt, but changed his plea on the day of the trial on the basis that he had simply pushed Mr Lloyd Ellis once.

Appleby, 42, of Eugene is charged with harassing and attempting to coerce Charlie Weaver, the president and publisher of the Daily Emerald student newspaper at the University of Oregon, because of a 2012 article that Appleby says "cast him in a bad light.

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